- Interview with Alice Kaplan
Author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. Also includes an excerpt of the book.
www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/424146in.html
- Cannes History
Explores the birth of an international resort.
www.riviera.fr/cannhist.htm
- Christine de Pizan (1364-c.1430)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Poets/Christine_de_Pizan__1364_c_1430_
- Ordre du Saint-Esprit
Information about France in the Renaissance, including chivalric orders, food, and royalty.
saint-esprit.freeservers.com
- Aury, Louis-Michel (1788-1821)
French privateer/pirate who participated in the revolutions of Mexico and Columbia and was a contemporary of Jean Laffite.
www.louisaury.com
- History of French Royalty
Genealogy and history of the house of Bourbon.
www.ifrance.com/conde/index.htm
- Jaeger
Traces the family tree from its origin in Alsace, starting in 1676.
perso.wanadoo.fr/j2.jaeger/index.html
- Early Modern History: French Revolution
Collection of links to web sites devoted to the revolution.
www.geschichte.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/fnz/revolution.html
- Dropt (Aquitaine River) and Its Medieval Patrimony
History of the valley of 'bastides', the river's navigation, and peasants.
w3.valleedudropt.com
- History of Occitania
Short history of this ancient region which now part of France.
www.dobl-oc.com/Engles/C206Isto_en.htm
- Daladier, Edouard (1884-1970)
1970 obituary of the French Premier, Minister of Defense, and Foreign Minister from the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0618.html
- Johnson, Sergeant Harry@
dir.yahoo.com/.../People/Johnson__Henry
- 1914-1918: War in Sepia
Collection of sepia-tone photographs originally owned by French serviceman Jean Marie Jourdain. Includes biography of Jourdain and a history of the 93rd Infantry Regiment.
perso.wanadoo.fr/kah
- Bonaparte / Buonaparte
History and genealogy of the family. Ancestors and descendants of Napoleon and descendants of his general Bernadotte, (Royal houses of Sweden, Norway, Denmark).
www.napoleonseries.org/genealogy
- Arago Cave
Tells the story of the 1971 discovery of Tautavel Man, an early human skeleton found in France's Arago Cave.
www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/tautavel
- Cemeteries of Paris
Contains information on people buried in Pere Lachaise, Montparnasse, and Montmartre cemeteries.
gofrance.about.com/travel/gofrance/library/weekly/aa012001a.htm
- Revolutionary Calendar, The
Explains how to calculate revolutionary and Gregorian dates and offers a chart showing how the months match up.
www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/revcalendar.cfm
- Arduin, Dominick
Official site for the French-born Finnish explorer. Includes notes on her attempts to be the first woman to ski solo to the North Pole.
www.arctic-dominick.com
- Wall House Museum
Displaying artifacts and pictures documenting the island's past. Located in a historic building at La Pointe on Gustavia Harbor.
www.st-barths.com/museum
- 90th US Division Association - Normandy 44
Dedicated to erecting a monument to honor to the men of the 90th U.S. Infantry Division who liberated Periers, France, in 1944.
assoc.wanadoo.fr/normandy44-90div.us/usa
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